Whether we're talking about animals or humans, gut microbes are essential for health, metabolism and protecting against ...

Re: “Lolita the orca dies in captivity before return to the PNW” [Aug. 18, Local News]: The death of Lolita in captivity was a travesty. The abusers who stole her and other orcas from Puget Sound got ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct 31 (Reuters) - A crocodilian tomistoma clambers around his watery enclosure, a radiated tortoise munches on plants and a Bali myna songbird perches on a branch - all creatures seized ...

Over the weekend we learned the cause of death for Chai, the 37-year-old elephant moved from Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo to the Oklahoma City Zoo last year. A necropsy reveals she died of a bacterial ...

Last weekend, a woman was mauled by a lioness at Darling Downs Zoo in Queensland, and lost her arm. The zoo, which keeps nine lions, has been operating for 20 years and had never experienced an ...

Meerkats are small, big-eyed, highly social mongooses who live in South Africa in packs ranging from two to more than 30 individuals in which complex social networks and social hierarchies regulate ...

Captive life does more than change routines for bears and pandas. It also changes the microscopic communities living in their ...